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We demonstrate that the nuclear collision geometry (i.e. impact parameter) can be determined with 1.5 fm accuracy in an event-by-event analysis by measuring the transverse energy flow in the pseudorapidity region $3 \le |\eta| \le 5$ with a…
Modification of nuclear reactions due to impurities in plasma is investigated. The hindering effect of Coulomb repulsion between reacting particles, that is effective in direct reactions, can practically disappear if Coulomb interaction of…
The combination of relativistic kinematics together with Coulomb or Yukawa potentials is a common place in atomic, nuclear and meson mass phenomenology. In meson spectroscopy, linear and Coulomb-like potentials are the most commonly used…
A microscopic optical potential based on a chiral model is used as a starting point for studying kaonic atoms levels. We add to this potential a phenomenological part fitted to the experimentally known shifts and widths of kaonic levels.…
A systematic analysis of the fusion cross sections around the Coulomb barrier energies with stable weakly bound ($^{6}$Li,$^{7}$Li,$^{9}$Be) and strongly bound $^{12}$C projectiles on various targets was performed by using neutron flow…
The existing and some preliminary experimental data on the total cross sections of the $^{4,6}$He, $^{6,7}$Li +$^{28}$Si reactions at energies E=5-50 A MeV are demonstrated. The data on $^{6}$Li,$^{6}$He+$^{28}$Si are analyzed in the…
The influence of the cold nuclear matter effects on the Coulomb barriers and also on the fusion cross sections of 47 fusion reactions are systematically investigated within the framework of the proximity formalism. For this purpose, I…
We explore the impact of half-shell components on nuclear reaction calculations, focusing on nonelastic breakup cross sections within the Ichimura-Austern-Vincent (IAV) model. By advocating for the use of a consistent Single Folding Model…
We study theoretically fusion of the light proton-rich exotic nuclei $^{17}$F and $^8$B at near-barrier energies in order to investigate the possible role of breakup processes on their fusion cross sections. To this end, coupled channel…
A competition of the low-energy Coulomb excitation (CE) with the compound nucleus (CN) formation in $\alpha$-induced reactions below the Coulomb barrier has been assumed by Rauscher [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 061104 (2013)] in order to use the…
The importance of the breakup channel in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier (1<Ec.m./Vb<2) is investigated for the medium weight 6Li+59Co system. Three-body final-state analysis of light-particle coincident data was carried out to…
Experimental results for sub-barrier nuclear fusion reactions show cross section enhancements with respect to bare nuclei which are generally larger than those expected according to electron screening calculations. We point out that energy…
We invert experimental data for heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies well below the Coulomb barrier in order to directly determine the internucleus potential between the colliding nuclei. In contrast to the previous applications of the…
Annihilation cross sections of antiprotons and antineutrons on the proton between 50 and 400 MeV/c show Coulomb focusing below 200 MeV/c and almost no charge-dependence above 200 MeV/c. Similar comparisons for heavier targets are not…
It is understood from the recent experimental studies that prompt/resonant breakup, and transfer followed by breakup in the weakly bound $^{6,7}$Li-induced reactions play a significant role in the complete-incomplete fusion (CF-ICF),…
Although the study of collisions of heavy ions resulting in formation of dinuclear systems has a long history this process still is a subject of experimental and scientific activities, partly because nowadays the heavy-ion fusion process is…
The neutron capture cross sections have been studied near the $Z=50$ closed shell for a number of nuclei those take part in heavy element nucleosynthesis, the slow and the rapid neutron capture processes and the proton capture process. An…
The aim of the present study is to make for the first time in the literature a systematic and quantitative assessment of the evaluation of the imaginary part of the optical potential calculated within the folding model and its consequences…
We review progress in studying two central problems in Nuclear Astrophysics: The \be7pg reaction is one of the major source of uncertainties in estimating the \b8 solar neutrino flux and is critical for the Solar Neutrino Problem. We…
The development of optical nanofibers (ONF) and the study and control of their optical properties when coupling atoms to their electromagnetic modes has opened new possibilities for their use in quantum optics and quantum information…